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HUNGRY! 



A COMEDY A LA MODE FOR TWO 
BLACKFACE COMEDIANS 



BY 

HARRY L. NEWTON 

AUTHOR OF 

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"The Goodfellow," "Good Mornln' Judge" "The Heiress of 

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HUNGRY! 



CHARACTERS. 

Tobias A Commissary Man. 

Mose An Envious Mortal. 



Place — Near the Commissary Quarters. 



Time — Long Past Meal Time. 



Time of Playing — About Fifteen Minutes. 



PROPERTIES. 

Large covered basket containing a pie, for Tobias, also a 
handkerchief. 



STAGE DIRECTIONS. 

R. means right of stage ; C v center ; R. C, right center ; 
L., left ; i E., first entrance ; U. E., upper entrance ; R. 3 E., 
right entrance, up stage, etc. ; R. D., right door; L. D., left 
door, etc. ; D. F., door in flat or back of the stage ; up stage, 
away from footlights, down stage, near footlights; 1 G., 
first groove, etc. The actor is supposed to be facing the au- 
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COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY EBEN H. NORRIS. 

0CI.D 47790 

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HUNGRY! 



Scene: A street in "One" or an interior. 

Enter Tobias R. He carries a large covered basket. 

Tobias {talking as he comes on). Doggone everythin' 
and everybody, anyhow ! Here I done tote dis basket clean 
up 89 flights of stairs, and nobody knows where it belongs. 
(Sets basket down — wipes face with handkerchief.) 

Enter Mose, running, from L.; Tobias grabs him. 

Tobias. Heah yo' — what yo' runnin' f o' ? 

Mose. I'm tryin' to stop two men from fightin'. 

Tobias. Who am those two men? 

Mose. Me and another fellow. 

Tobias. Shucks, man, why didn't yo' stay and fight him? 

Mose. Dat nigger beat me fo' twenty minutes one time 
and honest to Gawd, I never got so tired of a nigger in all 
mah life. 

Tobias. Yo' ain't skeered, is yo'? 

Mose. No — I'm hungry — jes' hungry, dat's all. (Sniffs 
loudly.) Lordy, Lordy — what does I smell? 

Tobias. Don't yo' go 'sinuatin', man — 

Mose. (Looks at basket.) Dat's it — dat's what I smells. 
— What yo' got in dat basket? 

Tobias. Twenty-eight fried chickens, seventy-nine 
baked sweet potatoes, eighteen pumpkin pies — 

Mose. Oh, envy leave mah soul! (Tries to open basket.) 

Tobias. (Shoves him away.) No, yo' don't. Dem eats 
don't belong to yo'. 

Mose. Does dey belong to yo' ? 

Tobias. No, sah ; but dey're under mah personal man- 
agement — I am deliverin' dis heah junk; but I can't find 
nobody to take it. 

Mose. Man, yo' need look no further. 

Tobias. Go 'way, man, I don't know yo' ! 

Mose. Yo' don't need to. Jes' introduce me to de con- 

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4 HUNGRY ! 

tents of dat basket — I don't care if yo' ever know me or 
not. 

Tobias. Yo' talk like yo' was hungry. 

Mose. Yes, and whatta yo' suppose mah stomach's say- 
in' right now ? 

Tobias. Now let's be frank and earnest. 

Mose. All right, Frank. 

Tobias. All right, Ernest! 

Mose. Mah goodness, I wish I had yo' job — chaperone 
to a bunch of chickens and pies — 

Tobias. Mah job ain't no cinch. Dat's a doggone heavy 
basket. 

Mose. Let's make it lighter! (Tries to get at basket.) 

Tobias (shoves him away). Behave! What right yo' 
got to be hungry ? Why don't yo' look f o' work ? 

Mose. Listen, man. Work am doggone scarce. I been 
all over dis town tryin' to find a job f o' mah wife. 

Tobias. Dat's too bad. Maybe I kin help yo'. 

Mose. Say, tell me one thing. How did yo' ever find 
your job ? Dat's what gets me ! I kin understand how a 
man kin be President of de United States, but how does a 
man grab a job like yours? 

Tobias. To get my job, I had to pass an examination. 

Mose. Lead me to it — I'll bet dere ain't a nigger in town 
kin eat more den me. 

Tobias. Dat ain't de kind of examination I mean. 

Mose. Oh, I thought dere was a trick 'bout it some- 
where. 

Tobias. De examination was fo' intelligence, honesty 
and things like dat. Now, maybe, I kin get yo' a job, if yo' 
kin answer certain questions pro rata. First question— 
Who was de first man ? 

Mose. George Washington. 

Tobias. See ? Yo' am all wrong. Right dere yo' lose yo' 
job. Adam was the first man. 

Mose. Oh, well, I wasn't countin' foreigners. 

Tobias. Second question — When was yo' born? 

Mose. I don't know. 



HUNGRY ! 5 

Tobias. Mah goodness, don't yo' know dat even. Who 
was with yo' when yo' was born ? 

Mose. My aunt ! 

Tobias. Lordy ! Lordy ! 

Mose. And it was on a Thursday. 

Tobias. How do yo' know yo' was born on a Thursday? 

Mose. 'Cause de next day we had fish — 

Tobias. Yo' don't get no job on dem come-backs. 

Mose. How's come? 

Tobias. Yo' don't qualify fo' dis heah job. Howsom- 
ever, I might git yo' a nice job in a powder factory. 

Mose. Powder factory? Don't I git mahself blow T ed up, 
maybe ? 

Tobias. Sure, dat could happen, but yo' wouldn't know 
anythin' 'bout it — blew^ie, and all is over ! 

Mose. Yes, and I am jes' naturally ruined fo' life. 

Tobias. Well, we all gotta pass out some time. 

Mose. Dat's so. Besides, if I gits blowed up, I stays up 
— I git me a home in heaven. 

Tobias. Not profoundly so. Yo' come down agin — 
more like yo' git yo'self a home down below — but you'd like 
it down there, fust class. 

Mose. How's come? 

Tobias. Because down there de streets am paved with 
dice; the trees are loaded with possum; chickens am as 
thick as flies 'round a molasses barrel, and de river am 
overflowing with gin. 

Mose. Oh, death, where is thy victory? 

Tobias. Dat settles it. I gives yo' up. Wait — why don't 
yo' join da army? 

Mose. Dat's good advice, but why don't you enlist in de 
army ? 

Tobias. I tried to, but dey rejected me. I got bad eye- 
sight. But why don't yo' enlist? 

Mose. Dey rejected me, too. 

Tobias. How's come? 

Mose. I got a floatin' kidney. 

Tobias. Well? 



6 HUNGRY ! 

Mose. Dey said a man with a floatin' kidney should en- 
list in de navy. {Laughs and slaps him on the back.) 

Tobias {angrily). Look heah, man. Yo' git fresh with 
me and twelve months from today yo'll be one year dead. 

Mose. Think so? 

Tobias. Yo' pester with me and I'll jes' naturally knock 
yo' ten blocks beyond yo' own home. 

Mose. Yes, and I'll fool yo' — I don't live dere no more. 

Tobias. Oh, well, I don't want to have any trouble with 
yo'. 

Mose. Yes, and I wouldn't have any trouble with yo'. 
Yo'd be a cinch fo' me. Howsomever, I'm still hungry. 

Tobias. Take mah advice and go around to back doors. 

Mose. I done tried dat. Every time I stick mah face 
in a back door and ask fo' somethin' to eat, dey sick de 
dog on me. 

Tobias. Den yo' case am hopeless. 

Mose. No, it ain't. I got an idea — de next time I go 
to a back door and dey sick de dog on me, I'm goin' eat 
de dog. 

Tobias. Yes, but suppose he eats yo'? 

Mose. Man, dear, if dat dog eats me any faster den I 
eats him, he's gotta work powerful fast, dat's all. 

Tobias. Oh, say, I jes' thought of somethin' else. Did 
yo 'ever do any big game shootin'? For instance, lions, 
tigers, elephants — and doughnuts? 

Mose. Doughnuts ? 

Tobias. 'Xactly — doughnuts ! A male doughnut is one 
of de gamest animals in existence. But a female doughnut 
will fight desperately to protect its young. During de mat- 
ing season it's as much as yo' life is wo'th to attempt to 
shoot a mother doughnut. 

Mose. Say, man wait a minute. Is yo' talkin' 'bout de 
doughnuts dat has a hole in 'em, and built like a automobile 
tire? 

Tobias. Nothing like it. You are referring to de tame, 
or domesticated doughnut. I am speaking of de doughnut 
in its wild and native state. 



HUNGRY ! 7 

Mose. Does yo' kind of doughnuts bite ? 

Tobias. Not after dey are fried. After yo' fry one it 
then become kind and gentle. However, dey are extremely 
hard to shoot — extremely hard. 

Mose. How's come? 

Tobias. Because yo' are always liable to hit de hole in 
dem. In which case yo' shot passes through dem and 
yo' ammunition is wasted, de doughnut becomes fright- 
ened, calls to its mate and dey take flight. 

Mose. Mah goodness, a person kin sure learn somethin' 
every day. How kin yo' tell a male doughnut from a female 
doughnut ? 

Tobias. Very simple. You creep up on a covey of dem, 
with a handful of watermelons — 

Mose. Watermelons? A handful of watermelons? 

Tobias. Certainly. All doughnuts are extremely fond 
of watermelons. 

Mose. Dey must have colored blood in dem. 

Tobias. Possibly. I cannot vouch for dat. Now when 
yo' reach the covey, you must coax dem to eat the water- 
melons. Therein lies de way to tell a male doughnut from 
a female doughnut. 

Mose. How's come ? 

Tobias. If she eats a watermelon, it's a female, and if 
he eats a watermelon, it's a male. Simple, isn't it? 

Mose. Yes, clear as mud, — but now dat you speak of it, 
I remember I once did some doughnut huntin' mahself . 

Tobias. Ah, you have me interested. Tell me about it. 

Mose. Well, dis was way down South, far from civiliza- 
tion — in de wilds and jungles of 22d street. I had been 
trackin' a large and ferocious doughnut fo' four days one 
day, but I couldn't git close enough to it to even wing it 
with a shot. 

Tobias. Ah, that very often happens. Dey can smell 
your scent. 

Mose. Dis heah one couldn't. I didn't have no cent — I 
was broke. Suddenly, however, I conceived a idea. I re- 
solved to snare de doughnut. 



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8 HUNGRY ! 

Tobias. Snare him? Say, that's a new one. I never 
heard of anybody snaring a doughnut — especially a male 
doughnut. Dey are very timid of traps and snares. 

Mose. Ah, dat's de wonderful part of dis adventure. 
Dat's where I conceived de big idea. I sat down, built me 
a fire and made me a large cup of coffee. As soon as de 
doughnut smelled de coffee, it ran right up, curled up along- 
side of de coffee and went sound asleep. In 15 minutes de 
woods was so full of doughnuts, I had stomach ache fo' a 
whole year. 

Tobias. You don't expect me to believe dat, does yo'? 

Mose. No — not yet — wait! Jes' den it began to rain — 
Oh, how it did rain ! Some of the rain drops was as big as 
a dime, others was as big as fifteen cents. We sure would 
av all been drown, if it hadn't been fo' one thing. 

Tobias. And what saved yo' from drownin' dead? 

Mose. A flock of tame sponge-cakes came along and 
soaked up all de water. 

Tobias. Yo' win. (He picks up basket — opens lid — 
takes out a whole pie and plasters Mose's face with it — then 
quickly exits — followed by Mose, who frantically attempts 
to stuff pie into his mouth.) 

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